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Physics of Plasmas / Volume 18 / Issue 1 / BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS

Phys. Plasmas 18, 014502 (2011); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3531685 (4 pages)

Bright, low debris, ultrashort hard x-ray table top source using carbon nanotubes

Suman Bagchi1,2, P. Prem Kiran1,2, K. Yang3, A. M. Rao3, M. K. Bhuyan4, M. Krishnamurthy1, and G. Ravindra Kumar1

1Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 1 Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005, India
2Advanced Centre of Research in High Energy Materials (ACRHEM), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, India
3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, USA
4Department d’Optique P. M. Duffieux, Institut FEMTO-ST, CNRS UMR 6174, Universite de Franche-Comte, 25030 Besancon, France

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(Received 6 July 2010; accepted 2 December 2010; published online 11 January 2011)

We demonstrate that carbon nanotube coated surfaces produce two orders of magnitude brighter hard x-ray emission, in laser produced plasmas, than planar surfaces. It is accompanied by three orders of magnitude reduction in ion debris which is also low Z and nontoxic. The increased emission is a direct consequence of the enhancement in local fields and is via the simple and well known “lightning rod” effect. We propose that this carbon nanotube hard x-ray source is a simple, inexpensive, and high repetition rate hard x-ray point source for a variety of applications in imaging, lithography, microscopy, and material processing.

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Keywords

carbon nanotubes, plasma production by laser, plasma X-ray sources

PACS

  • 52.38.Ph

    X-ray, γ-ray, and particle generation

  • 52.25.Os

    Emission, absorption, and scattering of electromagnetic radiation

  • 79.20.Ds

    Laser-beam impact phenomena

  • 52.50.Jm

    Plasma production and heating by laser beams (laser-foil, laser-cluster, etc.)

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1089-7674 (online)

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